Epidemiology of mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes in aquatic environments

ABSTRACT: Colistin is one of the last-line therapies against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, especially carbapenemase-producing isolates, making resistance to this compound a major global public-health crisis. Until recently, colistin resistance in Gram-negative bacteria was known to ar...

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Main Authors: Zineb Cherak, Lotfi Loucif, Abdelhamid Moussi, Jean-Marc Rolain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Subjects:
mcr
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213716521001946